Closing Conversation with Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Henry, SM ’05.
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
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